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A new framework for valuing health outcomes

Value in Health, the official journal of ISPOR - the professional society for health economics and outcomes research, announced today the publication of an article introducing a new framework for valuing health outcomes in cost-effectiveness analyses.

21 Jan 2020

Diagnosed with dementia, she documented her wishes. They said no.

When she worked on the trading floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, long before cellphone calculators, Susan Saran could perform complex math problems in her head. Years later, as one of its top regulators, she was in charge of investigating insider trading deals.

21 Jan 2020

GlobalData: Organuary could be better for the environment than Veganuary

A survey by GlobalData has found that 25% of global consumers would consider eating ‘vegan meat’ for environmental reasons, indicating that a growing number of people believe plant-based lifestyles to be better for the planet.

21 Jan 2020

Lab tests reveal that newly discovered T-cell can kill various types of cancer

Scientists have discovered a T-cell receptor that has proven effective in targeting a variety of cancers in mice and in human cells within the lab.

21 Jan 2020

Collaborative project to address the local opioid epidemic

The University of Arizona is partnering with the Tucson Police Department, CODAC Health, Recovery & Wellness, and Pima County as part of a three-year, $1.47 million Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration grant to route people with opioid use disorders toward treatment instead of jail.

21 Jan 2020

Study indicates a widening health gap between richest and poorest

The self-reported health of poor Brits is worse than that of people born a century ago, suggests a large nationally representative study of more than 200,000 working-age people, published online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.

20 Jan 2020

PNHP welcomes ACP’s endorsement of single-payer ‘Medicare for All’

Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) today welcomed the American College of Physicians' (ACP) endorsement of single-payer Medicare for All.

20 Jan 2020

Medicinal cannabis may not alleviate sleep problems over the long term

Medicinal cannabis might not ease sleep problems in people with chronic pain over the long term, because frequent users might build up tolerance to its sleep-inducing effects, suggests preliminary research published online in BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care.

20 Jan 2020

Heart failure market to experience major growth over the next 10 years, says GlobalData

The heart failure market is expected to grow from $3.7bn in 2018 to $22.1bn in 2028 across the eight major markets (8MM) at an impressive compound annual growth rate of 19.5%, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

20 Jan 2020

Sustainability in foodservice primarily driven by younger generations

Sustainability in foodservice channels is increasingly important, primarily driven by younger generations that are championing such causes.

20 Jan 2020

Novel coronavirus from Wuhan in China

The Australian Government Department of Health is aware of the cases of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) from the region of Wuhan in China, and watching developments very closely.

20 Jan 2020

New melanoma test may better predict recurrence and improve patient care

Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital have developed a new technique that improves on the current method for assessing whether primary melanoma is likely to recur and spread, following surgical removal.

20 Jan 2020

Doctors should warn cardiology patients about the risk of marijuana use, say researchers

A team led by investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital has stated that cardiology patients should be warned and counseled about the potential risks of using marijuana until further evidence is available.

20 Jan 2020

Risk of SIDS is significantly increased by combined prenatal smoking and drinking

Babies are 12 times more likely to suffer from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) if their mother continued to both drink and smoke after the first trimester of pregnancy, compared with babies born to mothers who did not.

20 Jan 2020

Survey: 40% of Americans are more tired than usual after the Super Bowl

Fun on Super Bowl Sunday can lead to a tired Monday for many. In a new survey from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, nearly 40% of U.S. adults said they are more tired than usual the Monday after the Super Bowl.

20 Jan 2020

Downsides of becoming an adult: Less physical activity and increased weight gain

Leaving school and getting a job both lead to a drop in the amount of physical activity, while becoming a mother is linked to increased weight gain, conclude two reviews published today and led by researchers at the University of Cambridge.

20 Jan 2020

Media reports focus on treatments involving opioids and cannabis for chronic pain

New Zealand media reports on chronic pain are focusing on treatments involving opioids and cannabis at the expense of best practice non-drug treatments, researchers have found.

17 Jan 2020

New 'smart' chair helps form correct body posture from childhood

The concept of the recent study is already presented in the conference materials issued by the French publishing house Atlantis Press, indexed by the Scopus and Web of Science databases. Externally, the "smart" chair is no different from the standard one. The difference is that it is equipped with special sensors that detect a person's posture and forewarn him when he is sitting incorrectly.

17 Jan 2020

Researchers find no improvement in ICU death rate at minority-serving hospitals

Racial disparities have previously been identified across a range of health care environments, sometimes extending into the highest levels of care. A new study led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center reveals that while critical care outcomes in intensive care units (ICUs) steadily improved over a decade at hospitals with few minority patients, ICUs with a more diverse patient population did not progress comparably.

17 Jan 2020

Team finds a way to removes GI device without using endoscopy

Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have potentially found a way to eliminate some of the endoscopic surgeries need to remove gastrointestinal (GI) medical devices.

17 Jan 2020